Individual Details
William Henry "Washa" Marshall
(1853 - 13 Feb 1899)
Also known as William (Washer) Marshall.
Also known as William Marshall Conner.
1862 Allotment #333
Delaware Census #172
Raised by James Connor when he was orphaned as a child.
1880 Census listed him as a farmer.
Mary Bezion stated in an interview that she knew that William H. Marshall had used the name of Conner because he was orphaned and raised by the Conners.
Helen Bernice Broadbent Love knew his name to be Washa and not Washer. There may have been a misunderstanding at the time of Census and the Census taker didn't record it correctly. This happened a lot with the soundex system.
William is buried in the Bezion Cemetery/Nowata/Cooweescowee Dist. Location is Section 1, R16E, T26N, Nowata County, fenced and maintained. In February 2002 the Delaware Tribal Counsel voted to maintain this cemetery to preserve its rich Delaware History.
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1862 Allotment #333
Delaware Census #172
He was known as William Washa Marshall.
He was raised by James Conner, when he was orphaned by the death of his mother and father, John M. Marshall. Sometimes he was known to use the name William Conner.
1880 census listed him as a farmer.
Mary Bezion, a Delaware, stated in an interview that she knew that William H. Marshall had used the name of Conner because he was orphaned and raised by the Conners.
Helen Bernice Broadbent Love knew him to be "Washa" and not "Washer” as some records depict.
William is buried in the Bezion Cemetery/Nowata/Cooweescowee Dist. The location is Section 1, R16E, T26N, Nowata County, fenced and maintained. In February 2002, the Delaware Tribal Council voted to maintain this cemetery to preserve its rich Delaware history.
September 23, 1876: Cherokee Advocate, A BATTLE AT CHURCH-Bloody Feud-Its Commencement and Progress. Attack of Four Desperadoes on a Delaware Church. One Delaware Who Was Also an Officer of the Law Instantly Killed. Pursuit and Desperate Fighting with the Attacking Party. Three of the Four Killed
In order to properly understand the terrible occurrences of last Sabbath, it is necessary to go back a few years. When the Delawares agreed to become Cherokee citizens under the treaty of 1866, they must have depended upon the reputation of the Cherokees as a law-loving and law abiding people for their assurance of a peaceful residence among us. That was in the years of 1868-9 before it was known how much the late war had spoiled the "rising generation."
Not long after the Delawares had become Cherokees in a political sense, a young son of Jno. Coker, a Cherokee by birth, was killed by a Delaware, no one being present, as far as know, besides the combatants. The fight was extremely desperate, though both were mere boys, the Delaware survived the dangerous wounds received, by almost a miracle.
The family of Cokers were known as a fierce and determined family, with many friends and a large connection.
A while after this conflict between two lads without witnesses, the Cokers, Jno the father and Calvin the son, went one dark night to the house of Charles Hicks, then acting sheriff of Cooweescoowee district, and killed him on his own hearth before his imploring wife. The Delawares, as citizens, felt themselves called upon to assist in the pursuit and arrest of the two Cokers, and lent their help to effect that object. Charles Journeycake, one of the Delaware chiefs, and a minister of the Gospel, headed the posse of Delawares. The two Cokers fled the country. In the meantime, their family residence was burned. After a year or two, Jno. Coker was understood to have died somewhere in Arkansas where his relations upon the white side lived. The pursuit of Calvin Coker relaxed, and after the lapse of two or three more years, he gave himself up to the Cherokee authorities for trial. The trial was had and Coker was acquitted.
A month had hardly passed before his acquittal before Calvin Coker, who in addition to other grievances, complained of ill treatment to his wife who was a Delaware, shot and killed on the public road Charles Journeycake (should be Isaac Journeycake), the Chief above mentioned. Again, Coker fled the country, but a large reward being immediately offered by the Cherokee authorities and the Journeycake family for his arrest, he was finally captured, tried, and acquitted.
About two o'clock of the morning of the first Monday of this month, the 4th inst., Calvin Coker was shot in the back by a person unknown while drinking in a saloon in Coffeyville, a town in Kansas, beyond the Cherokee line. The wound was first thought to be fatal but Coker is now understood to be recovering.
The last incident of this fatal feud occurred last Sunday at a Church erected by the Delawares at Silver Lake, Cooweescoowee District. The facts as we have been able to gather them from eyewitnesses are these:
The Rev. Isaac Journeycake (should be Charles Journeycake) had just risen to preach when a pistol shot was heard outside. Four horsemen had ridden up from different directions and met in front of the church. Their names were James Shelly, who held the smoking pistol in his hand the report of which had just been heard. The others were Frank Rogers, a Cherokee, son of the well-known and highly esteemed District Judge of Cooweescoowee District, Lewis Aiken, a half breed Osage, and Eben Brown, son of a respectable citizen of the same district, who is also a member of the National Council.
The law authorizes the Sheriff to appoint a deputy or guard to keep order when necessary during religious services.
Mr. Wilson Sarcoxie, a respectable and highly esteemed Delaware, had been appointed by the Cooweescoowee Sheriff to preserve order at the religious exercises at that place. Sarcoxie instantly commanded order in the name of the law and demanded Shelly's weapon. Shelly required him to show his authority. Sarcoxie exhibited it and again advance to disarm Shelly. Sarcoxie was instantly fired upon by the entire party fell dead, shot through the heart.
A cry of consternation arose from the assembled worshippers, "Another Delaware killed." They thronged out of the building to the assistance of the murdered man though they as well as he had come unarmed trusting to protecting power of Cherokee law. The four murderers retired from the scene of their crime, but with a spirit we should not know how to describe if it were not for the word diabolical, emptied their revolvers into the mass of Delaware church goers as they came out pell mell. They could not have taken aim however, as no one was hit, the narrowest escape being that of a young lady--the accomplished daughter of the officiating minister--who had one of her curls cut by a pistol bullet, while in the doorway.
Some of those present had come from a distance and had a Spencer rifle in his buggy. A young Delaware, named William Henry Marshall got hold of this gun, mounted a horse and started in pursuit of the murderers, whom he found in a ravine close by reloading their pistols. They called to Marshall to halt and throw down his weapon. "Throw down your own," he replied still advancing. In a moment, he was in their midst and received a wound in his hat and several in his clothing, his horse was shot and himself dismounted. They were still firing at him, when he arose and fired his first shot, the deadly missile striking Frank Rogers wrist as it was extended in the act of shooting, passing up and through the arm and through his chest. Rogers immediately fell and his comrades mounted and fled, but not before another shot from Marshall struck Shelly in the foot as he was flying.
The father of the murdered Sarcoxie though wholly unarmed, was pursuing his son's assassins on a horse from which he had hastily stripped the harness and mounted bareback. This horse--a good one--was mounted by Marshall and away he rode after the retreating party, but not before he had shot Rogers again, this time through the brain.
Marshall was rapidly overtaking the party when they separated--Eben Brown, who had mounted the horse of Rogers, making one direction and Shelly and Aiken taking another. Marshall followed the two latter and soon over hauled the with an order to halt and disarm themselves or to take the consequences. Shelly being severely wounded, as related, and both being demoralized by the disastrous result of their unlawful expedition, threw down their weapons and surrendered. By this time, several Delawares had obtained arms and were in hot pursuit of Brown, who however had the best horse and made his escape.
From Shelly it was learned (so it is reported) that the intention of the party was to make a disturbance that would bring out the Rev. Isaac (Charles) Journeycake, then kill him and shoot others that might interfere. What became of Aiken and Shelly after their arrest and reported confession is not known to us, but when our readers consider the jury--the Delawares must have been worked at the wanton attack upon their church, and the ruthless murder of one of their best men while acting in the capacity of an Order of the Government, they may guess what became of the two ruffians who may be said to have been caught in the very act.
We have not the space this week to make reflections upon the awful occurrence above related. Indeed, it ought not to be necessary. The recital suggests the lesson to be drawn from it. We present the main consideration to our Cherokee readers in the form of a question.
Will not a faithful and impartial administration of law effectively operate to prevent the lamentable and horrible occurrences disastrous as they are to our character and well-being as a nation?
June 17, 1878: Special Term of the Supreme Court. Convened in Cooweescoowee District Cherokee Nation for the purpose of trying William H. Marshall who is charged with the murder of Frank Rogers. Hon. Judge John Landrum presiding.
Many testified. There being no more witnesses introduced--the evidence then closed for arguments by the attorneys. After which, the case was submitted to the jury--who after due and diligent inquiry in connection with the evidence returned with the verdict as following: We the jury unanimously agree in sending a verdict of not guilty.
June 29, 1878: Cherokee Advocate: The Delaware who was tried in Cooweescoowee last week for the murder of Rogers, "come clear."
Also known as William Marshall Conner.
1862 Allotment #333
Delaware Census #172
Raised by James Connor when he was orphaned as a child.
1880 Census listed him as a farmer.
Mary Bezion stated in an interview that she knew that William H. Marshall had used the name of Conner because he was orphaned and raised by the Conners.
Helen Bernice Broadbent Love knew his name to be Washa and not Washer. There may have been a misunderstanding at the time of Census and the Census taker didn't record it correctly. This happened a lot with the soundex system.
William is buried in the Bezion Cemetery/Nowata/Cooweescowee Dist. Location is Section 1, R16E, T26N, Nowata County, fenced and maintained. In February 2002 the Delaware Tribal Counsel voted to maintain this cemetery to preserve its rich Delaware History.
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1862 Allotment #333
Delaware Census #172
He was known as William Washa Marshall.
He was raised by James Conner, when he was orphaned by the death of his mother and father, John M. Marshall. Sometimes he was known to use the name William Conner.
1880 census listed him as a farmer.
Mary Bezion, a Delaware, stated in an interview that she knew that William H. Marshall had used the name of Conner because he was orphaned and raised by the Conners.
Helen Bernice Broadbent Love knew him to be "Washa" and not "Washer” as some records depict.
William is buried in the Bezion Cemetery/Nowata/Cooweescowee Dist. The location is Section 1, R16E, T26N, Nowata County, fenced and maintained. In February 2002, the Delaware Tribal Council voted to maintain this cemetery to preserve its rich Delaware history.
September 23, 1876: Cherokee Advocate, A BATTLE AT CHURCH-Bloody Feud-Its Commencement and Progress. Attack of Four Desperadoes on a Delaware Church. One Delaware Who Was Also an Officer of the Law Instantly Killed. Pursuit and Desperate Fighting with the Attacking Party. Three of the Four Killed
In order to properly understand the terrible occurrences of last Sabbath, it is necessary to go back a few years. When the Delawares agreed to become Cherokee citizens under the treaty of 1866, they must have depended upon the reputation of the Cherokees as a law-loving and law abiding people for their assurance of a peaceful residence among us. That was in the years of 1868-9 before it was known how much the late war had spoiled the "rising generation."
Not long after the Delawares had become Cherokees in a political sense, a young son of Jno. Coker, a Cherokee by birth, was killed by a Delaware, no one being present, as far as know, besides the combatants. The fight was extremely desperate, though both were mere boys, the Delaware survived the dangerous wounds received, by almost a miracle.
The family of Cokers were known as a fierce and determined family, with many friends and a large connection.
A while after this conflict between two lads without witnesses, the Cokers, Jno the father and Calvin the son, went one dark night to the house of Charles Hicks, then acting sheriff of Cooweescoowee district, and killed him on his own hearth before his imploring wife. The Delawares, as citizens, felt themselves called upon to assist in the pursuit and arrest of the two Cokers, and lent their help to effect that object. Charles Journeycake, one of the Delaware chiefs, and a minister of the Gospel, headed the posse of Delawares. The two Cokers fled the country. In the meantime, their family residence was burned. After a year or two, Jno. Coker was understood to have died somewhere in Arkansas where his relations upon the white side lived. The pursuit of Calvin Coker relaxed, and after the lapse of two or three more years, he gave himself up to the Cherokee authorities for trial. The trial was had and Coker was acquitted.
A month had hardly passed before his acquittal before Calvin Coker, who in addition to other grievances, complained of ill treatment to his wife who was a Delaware, shot and killed on the public road Charles Journeycake (should be Isaac Journeycake), the Chief above mentioned. Again, Coker fled the country, but a large reward being immediately offered by the Cherokee authorities and the Journeycake family for his arrest, he was finally captured, tried, and acquitted.
About two o'clock of the morning of the first Monday of this month, the 4th inst., Calvin Coker was shot in the back by a person unknown while drinking in a saloon in Coffeyville, a town in Kansas, beyond the Cherokee line. The wound was first thought to be fatal but Coker is now understood to be recovering.
The last incident of this fatal feud occurred last Sunday at a Church erected by the Delawares at Silver Lake, Cooweescoowee District. The facts as we have been able to gather them from eyewitnesses are these:
The Rev. Isaac Journeycake (should be Charles Journeycake) had just risen to preach when a pistol shot was heard outside. Four horsemen had ridden up from different directions and met in front of the church. Their names were James Shelly, who held the smoking pistol in his hand the report of which had just been heard. The others were Frank Rogers, a Cherokee, son of the well-known and highly esteemed District Judge of Cooweescoowee District, Lewis Aiken, a half breed Osage, and Eben Brown, son of a respectable citizen of the same district, who is also a member of the National Council.
The law authorizes the Sheriff to appoint a deputy or guard to keep order when necessary during religious services.
Mr. Wilson Sarcoxie, a respectable and highly esteemed Delaware, had been appointed by the Cooweescoowee Sheriff to preserve order at the religious exercises at that place. Sarcoxie instantly commanded order in the name of the law and demanded Shelly's weapon. Shelly required him to show his authority. Sarcoxie exhibited it and again advance to disarm Shelly. Sarcoxie was instantly fired upon by the entire party fell dead, shot through the heart.
A cry of consternation arose from the assembled worshippers, "Another Delaware killed." They thronged out of the building to the assistance of the murdered man though they as well as he had come unarmed trusting to protecting power of Cherokee law. The four murderers retired from the scene of their crime, but with a spirit we should not know how to describe if it were not for the word diabolical, emptied their revolvers into the mass of Delaware church goers as they came out pell mell. They could not have taken aim however, as no one was hit, the narrowest escape being that of a young lady--the accomplished daughter of the officiating minister--who had one of her curls cut by a pistol bullet, while in the doorway.
Some of those present had come from a distance and had a Spencer rifle in his buggy. A young Delaware, named William Henry Marshall got hold of this gun, mounted a horse and started in pursuit of the murderers, whom he found in a ravine close by reloading their pistols. They called to Marshall to halt and throw down his weapon. "Throw down your own," he replied still advancing. In a moment, he was in their midst and received a wound in his hat and several in his clothing, his horse was shot and himself dismounted. They were still firing at him, when he arose and fired his first shot, the deadly missile striking Frank Rogers wrist as it was extended in the act of shooting, passing up and through the arm and through his chest. Rogers immediately fell and his comrades mounted and fled, but not before another shot from Marshall struck Shelly in the foot as he was flying.
The father of the murdered Sarcoxie though wholly unarmed, was pursuing his son's assassins on a horse from which he had hastily stripped the harness and mounted bareback. This horse--a good one--was mounted by Marshall and away he rode after the retreating party, but not before he had shot Rogers again, this time through the brain.
Marshall was rapidly overtaking the party when they separated--Eben Brown, who had mounted the horse of Rogers, making one direction and Shelly and Aiken taking another. Marshall followed the two latter and soon over hauled the with an order to halt and disarm themselves or to take the consequences. Shelly being severely wounded, as related, and both being demoralized by the disastrous result of their unlawful expedition, threw down their weapons and surrendered. By this time, several Delawares had obtained arms and were in hot pursuit of Brown, who however had the best horse and made his escape.
From Shelly it was learned (so it is reported) that the intention of the party was to make a disturbance that would bring out the Rev. Isaac (Charles) Journeycake, then kill him and shoot others that might interfere. What became of Aiken and Shelly after their arrest and reported confession is not known to us, but when our readers consider the jury--the Delawares must have been worked at the wanton attack upon their church, and the ruthless murder of one of their best men while acting in the capacity of an Order of the Government, they may guess what became of the two ruffians who may be said to have been caught in the very act.
We have not the space this week to make reflections upon the awful occurrence above related. Indeed, it ought not to be necessary. The recital suggests the lesson to be drawn from it. We present the main consideration to our Cherokee readers in the form of a question.
Will not a faithful and impartial administration of law effectively operate to prevent the lamentable and horrible occurrences disastrous as they are to our character and well-being as a nation?
June 17, 1878: Special Term of the Supreme Court. Convened in Cooweescoowee District Cherokee Nation for the purpose of trying William H. Marshall who is charged with the murder of Frank Rogers. Hon. Judge John Landrum presiding.
Many testified. There being no more witnesses introduced--the evidence then closed for arguments by the attorneys. After which, the case was submitted to the jury--who after due and diligent inquiry in connection with the evidence returned with the verdict as following: We the jury unanimously agree in sending a verdict of not guilty.
June 29, 1878: Cherokee Advocate: The Delaware who was tried in Cooweescoowee last week for the murder of Rogers, "come clear."
Events
| Birth | 1853 | Kansas, United States | |||
| 1862 Allotment | 1862 | 333. William Marshall, age 10, E/2 NW/4, 19-10-24, 80 acres - Wyandotte, Kansas, United States | |||
| Death | 13 Feb 1899 | Hogshooter, Washington County, Oklahoma Indian Territory, United States | |||
| Alt name | William Marshall Conner | ||||
| Alt name | William H. Marshall Jr | ||||
| Adoption | |||||
| Burial | Bezion Cemetery, Delaware, Nowata, Oklahoma, United States | ||||
| FIND-A-GRAVE | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15724295/william-henry_washer-marshall | ||||
| Wikitree | https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marshall-4011 | ||||
| Burial | Bezion Cemetery, Nowata County, Indian Territory |
Families
| Spouse | Toantoxqua "Lizzy James" (1853 - 1867) |
| Child | Ida Mary Marshall (1881 - 1951) |
| Child | Jane Ann "Annie" Marshall (1894 - 1928) |
| Child | Rosa Marshall ( - ) |
| Spouse | Willatia "Lizzie" Secondine (1864 - 1922) |
| Child | Charlie Marshall (1885 - 1885) |
| Child | Andrew Marshall (1886 - 1959) |
| Child | James Marshall (1892 - 1903) |
| Child | Annie Marshall (1894 - ) |
| Father | John M. Marshall (1825 - 1861) |
| Mother | Lucy Connor (1827 - 1893) |
| Sibling | Charles "*" Marshall (1845 - ) |
| Sibling | Rosanna Marshall (1845 - 1898) |
| Sibling | Anna Marshall (1854 - ) |
| Sibling | John Marshall Jr (1857 - ) |
| Sibling | Polly Marshall (1859 - ) |